Non-profit digital library. 19 years of internet history through the Wayback Machine.
Internet Archive has:
20 million media items
8 million print items
2 mil audio items
3 million hours of TV
2.5 million users each day downloading
The goal is all published works of humankind.
Works with 100 partners. Digitize books 1000 books per day in 39 countries
Web service- "archive it" will archive all sites for the internet Archive.
65 channels of TV archived constantly every day
129 million published books Internet archive has only about 4 million. Need to increase.
Create your own collection on Internet archive and reference books by other persons and libraries. This will help create meaning.
Digital Public library of America - dp.la
Acts to bring togther communities in a local fashion.
Create an ecosystem where different libraries can all work together. DPLA gathers digital collections from other libraries.
DPLA does not preserve, but works with others to bring existing content into one source.
Collaboration is difficult but is essential.
Pop-up archive
Creating access and preserving in audio format. Works with digital audio in order to give users the ability to search historical audio files. This project is web based popuparchive.org. Pop-up Archive works with small and large libraries and academic institutions to collect digital audio files.
Creating access and preserving in audio format. Works with digital audio in order to give users the ability to search historical audio files. This project is web based popuparchive.org. Pop-up Archive works with small and large libraries and academic institutions to collect digital audio files.
The goal is to create a digital oral history. There are 10000 digital audio files loaded to Pop-Up Archive.
Part of archive.org is an amazing collection of live music (from legit acts) at etree.org. I would recommend starting with Explosions in the Sky https://archive.org/details/etree?&sort=-downloads&and[]=explosions in the sky.
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